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Influence Of Celebrities’ Dressing Styles On Students’ Choice Of Clothing And Socialization In Tertiary Institutions
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1.6 Significance of the Study
This
research will be of immense relevance to parents/families, students,
tertiary institutions and to the society at large on issues regarding
people’s appearance and outfits. This study is beneficial to
parents/families to ensure that children from an early stage should be
disciplined on how to dress properly and not exposing their bodies
unnecessarily, while they become students on campus they should also be
cautioned not to confirm to ungodly pattern of dressing and to help them
to be conscious of their figure and find what really fits them.
Tertiary
institutions are beneficiaries to the study due to the fact that it
will help reduce cases of teacher-student and student-teacher harassment
on campuses, make student appear more decent and modest in their
outfits. The school authorities will have less issues dealing with cases
of indecent dressing or having to impose any form of dress code in
tertiary institutions.
Clothing lecturers of tertiary institution
will have this study as a secondary source of information to teacher
concerning good clothing practices that will assist to improve the image
of students by making them dress-up according to what rally fits their
structures.
The society is also benefitting from this study because
it has every tendency to improve patronage of local productions of
clothing and not clothing’s of celebrities thereby improving economy of
Nigeria. Challenges and cases of rape and sexual harassment in the
society will be highly reduced thereby coping issues of crime in the
society.
1.7 Basic Assumptions of the study
This study was based on the following assumptions that students:
1) are influenced by celebrities mode of dressing.
2) dressings are not in conformity with culture or religion
3) derive psychological satisfaction when dressed like celebrities.
1.8 Delimitations of the Study
The
study was delimited to celebrities (actors, actresses and musicians)
dressing styles and their influence on students choice of clothing and
socialization in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The state is
considered an educational state as various institutions are situated in
major cities of Nigeria. It has attracted people from all parts of the
country and internationally making the state a cosmopolitan state and
relevant to be used for this study with much emphasis on students of
University of Lagos. These students cut across all Faculties of the
University and they were mostly young adults whose mode of dressing
are assumed to be highly influenced by current trends which formed bases
for delimiting the study to these group of students.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study was carried out to investigate the influence of Celebrities’ Dressing Styles on Students’ Choice of Clothing and Socialization in tertiary institutions in Kaduna state, Nigeria. Four objectives, four research question and four null hypotheses were formulated as well as review of relevant literatures to the study. The study was a survey research design having Five thousand and thirty students as the target population while five hundred and three students served as samples ... Continue reading---
